Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South by Melissa Schrift

Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South

Melissa Schrift

222 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective medium-paced
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Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains in the farthest corner of northeast Tennessee. The allegedl...

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